Heard And Not Seen

Sadly, but temporarily, the Heard And Not Seen exhibition has closed. Thanks to everyone that came along and suported the project, it’s been fantastic.  If you didn’t manage to make it along, there will be further chances to see the exhibition next year as we tour it to a range of places, from small community venues to galleries and museums.  Keep checking the exhibition page for details of future opportunities to see the show, where you can also get a taste of the exhibition through photographs and film documentation.  There’s currently a an excellent documentary film by a student, Cherrelle, who interviewed Sandra whilst the exhibition was on.  We’ll be uploading much more soon, but do try and come along and see the show next time, even if you have seen it before, as each incarnation will be different as the audience and website community feed into it.  Thanks again to everyone who supported and assisted on the production of the first outing of Heard And Not Seen, especially the excellent volunteer invigilation team, the crew, the artists, supporters and funders, the people who attended the discussion groups, and the participants of interviews and workshops.

Welcome to the ‘Heard and Not Seen’ blog and website. ‘Heard and Not Seen’ is an arts project by Sandra Hall and Mitra Memarzia supported by Friction Arts. The project aims to create a unique, safe space for people to meet and ask questions with each other, of each other; particularly about faith, religion and spirituality. More details about the project can be found here.

There’s only a few days left, the show closes on Friday the 28th at 7pm, so if you haven’t seen the exhibition, get yourself down to level three of the Mailbox and grab a look.  The show will be touring next year, so if you can’t make it, keep checking back here and we’ll let you know when there’ll be another chance to see the exhibition.

We’ve had a great time so far, with a huge range of people attending the show, interested parties and Mailbox shoppers.  The facilitated discussions have been a resounding success and have been great at giving people the opportunities to talk and ask questions of each other that we always intended for the project, the opportunity to be seen AND heard…

Welcome to the ‘Heard and Not Seen’ blog and website. ‘Heard and Not Seen’ is an arts project by Sandra Hall and Mitra Memarzia supported by Friction Arts. The project aims to create a unique, safe space for people to meet and ask questions with each other, of each other; particularly about faith, religion and spirituality. More details about the project can be found here.

So the exhibition launch was last night and was a resounding success.  It was a great turnout, with over 200 people coming through the doors.  Councillor Rudge gave a great speech, followed by our own Sandra Hall, welcoming the audience to the celebration of all the great things that have already been achieved by the project, and it’s only the beginning.  The audience had a great time, there were all kinds of people there, definately not the usual arts audience, there were kids running about, ’suits’, police, representatives from the bbc and a great cross-section of the Brummie community.  I’ll be posting images of the exhibition on the appropriate page in a couple of days, as well as some more audio on the interviews page, so keep checking back.

We’d like to thank everyone who came to the launch, but we’d also like to urge them to return at a quieter time – there were so many people attending it was very difficult to get a real look at the work on offer!  We’re all really pleased with the way the exhibition is looking in its current incarnation and a special thanks has to go to the Mailbox for taking the risk of showing the work, when many traditional arts spaces would not.

The show runs daily (including Sundays) until the 28th of November, so we hope to see you there.